Paris (AFP)
RTL will launch a major appeal on Wednesday for donations in favor of students in precarious situations, an operation organized with the Secours populaire and which will be relayed by other media from the M6 group.
To echo this call announced on Friday, which will send listeners to the Secours populaire website, the radio will be offering a special day on its antenna.
With guests and reports in several cities in France, for example on food aid in Metz, on the distribution of computer equipment at Cité U in Paris, or on the "Solidaribus" in Brittany ...
Among the other highlights, the free-to-air broadcasts of Pascal Praud and Caroline Dublanche will give a voice to the students, and the proceeds from 3210 (the number dedicated to listeners) will be donated that day to the operation.
The call for donations will be relayed on the digital devices of RTL and the branches of Fun Radio, RTL2 and M6.
For Catherine Mangin, deputy editor of RTL, this initiative was born from the observation which emerged in the reports produced in the field by the correspondents of the radio in recent months: "many students have a problem of subsistence, and the associations have initiated actions in the field "which require funds," she underlines.
"The needs are growing, within our 1,200 offices throughout France we have seen the arrival of 45% of new audiences, including many students", since the start of the health crisis, confirms Christian Lampin, national secretary of Secours populaire .
And "at some point, you need money, you can't act without fundraising," he reminded AFP.
Concretely, the appeal will help finance material aid (food distribution, hygiene kits, menstrual protection, digital equipment essential for the pursuit of studies, etc.).
It will also allow isolated students to discover possibilities of reception and support, and to encourage mutual assistance between students.
Beyond the student world, it is also a way to "help awareness" of the unprecedented difficulties that this generation is going through, underlines Catherine Mangin, who specifies that RTL will exercise "a resale right" to tell its auditors the actions implemented.
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